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If you have read my Linked In profile, you already know that I am in the Lead Generation business. I have to laugh when a friend of mine calls me a “Rain Maker”. Farmers, back in the 30s, used to look for rain makers to come to their farms and make it rain. This would give rain for their crops so they would have a plentiful harvest, and lots of money in the bank.

A Rain Maker today is someone who can get people into a client’s office. The person going to my client is someone willing to pay to have their problem fixed; legal problems, dental problems, marital problems, infertility problems . . . And the list goes on.

I find those people for my clients. My clients are looking for their phone to ring. When their phone rings, I get paid. For the past two years, I have been working for clients at no charge to gain experience. As retirement comes closer and closer with each passing month, I will be migrating from offering my services for free to offering my services for a fee.

Lately, I have been holding webinars for my clients. It’s a great way for people to meet and get questions answered in advance of an actual in office meeting. Sometimes, I hold the webinars for my my perospective clients to discuss different lead generation methods I use and it helps me to reach more people in different parts of the country.

I have been using the Go To Webinar platform for the past few years. Back when I was running the trading room for Echo Traders, we used the Go To Webinar platform for webinars. But the platform had limitations. I’ve been looking for a solution and think I have found it.

There is no secret, that the number one tool for generating HUGE results online are webinars. (Both live and recorded ones)

If you are looking for the Jim Fortune that is retired, resting on his laurels, please close this web page and keep looking. I’m not retired. If you are looking for the Jim Fortune, who proudly served in the US Army and you came here looking for pearls of wisdom, keep reading.

It’s 2015. January 4th is the 47th anniversary of my being sworn into the US Army for my first tour. That tour also happened to be my last tour. I got to tour Columbia, South Carolina, for four months. Lawton, OK, for 4 months.

I toured Viet Nam by way of Phu Bai and Camp Eagle, home of the 101st Airborne in the North part of the country. I also got to spend “time” at FSB (Fire Support Base) a.k.a. LZ Sally. LZ Roy and LZ Tomahawk. I was airlifted out of Tomahawk in February, 1969 to the 510th Evacuation Hospital at China Beach. I was not at Tomahawk when the attack on Tomahawk occurred on 6/19/69. I am thankful for that. It’s amazing that some people think that China Beach was only a TV show in the 80s and not a real place. Believe me. It was a real place.

I was only at China Beach for a short time; maybe a week. And then I was taken to Camp Drake in Japan. Many people I tell that I was at Camp Drake have never heard of it. Camp Drake was a joint US Army/Air Force base in Saitama, active until the 1970`s. It contained a hospital which handled troops coming out of Vietnam. I was there for about two weeks and was then sent “back to the world”. “Back to the world” was a euphemism for what the guys in Viet Nam called going back stateside.

It was then that I started my three month tour at Fort Devens Army Hospital, Ayer, MA, and the on to Fort Carson, CO for my final eight month tour on active duty.

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I went to the doctor. She told me she had good new and bad news. Which did I want first. I told her – “Give me the bad news.” She told me, “Jim, you are going to die.” I thought WOW!!

I then asked, “What’s the good news?” She replied, “We don’t know when!”

Isn’t that the way? We are all going to die. We know that our time is not infinite. We just do not know the time or the hour. It’s going to happen.

So what are you doing today to get ready for when you are not here tomorrow? Bill Porter, a guy at work, died a few weeks ago. He was 61. James Murdoch, another guy I knew that also worked with me, died last March. He was buried on March 17th. He was 66. I always thought James was younger than I was and I thought he was in pretty good shape. Turns out he was in such good shape that he just looked younger than I was, but was in fact a lot older. He used to walk in the stairwell, every day at lunch time, from the basement to the top and back – twice. He died in his sleep.

I’m getting my house in order. Since I don’t know when, I want to be sure that everything goes well when I am not around any more.

Hope you are doing well. When are you leaving and do you have your house in order?

I’ve been working on a couple of projects. I can’t really say too much about them at this time – really. I will say that one of the projects has to do with wine and one of the others is about investments.